Executive Summary

Informations
Name MDVSA-2008:159 First vendor Publication 2008-07-30
Vendor Mandriva Last vendor Modification 2008-07-30
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A flaw was discovered in licq versions prior to 1.3.6 that allowed a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (crash) via a large number of connections (CVE-2008-1996).

The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

Original Source

Url : http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:159

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 30

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for licq FEDORA-2008-3812
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_3812_licq_fc9.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for licq FEDORA-2008-3909
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_3909_licq_fc7.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for licq FEDORA-2008-3969
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_3969_licq_fc8.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
44757 licq Connection Saturation Remote DoS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2008-05-16 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-3812.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-05-16 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-3909.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-05-16 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-3969.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO